Talk:The Bang Bang Club (film)

Very bad reviews for the film and Silver

Hello,

Citation: "But as it is, Bang Bang Club is an unsalvageable mess, an embarrassment not only to film but to the lives of those people documented." By Dustin Rowles, Bang Bang Club Review: An Egregious Disaster of Boneheaded Proportions, April 28, 2011 .... take a look. More of this is following.

The reference via Rotten Tomatoes is not writen by qualificed reviewers like Miriam Brent, for the www.theguardian.com for exemple. I will delete Rotten Tomatos and adding three qualifid and indepp reviews by valid sources. Not today but soon. Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 19:07, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

I don't delete Rotten Tomatoes but add qualified reviewers only.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 22:11, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Review of the film Bang Bang Club

Hello, after some intensiv research I wrote the update. Take a look, and if you can help I appreciate it.

the text:

Judith Matloff, a veteran foreign correspondent and Contributing Editor, Columbia Journalism Review explains in her review about the film The Bang Bang Club by Steven Silver that it is the latest Hollywood production to get the role of the conflict correspondent wrong. Matloff Teach course on conflict reporting, supervise Master's these at the Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism, New York City. Matloff wrote:

But the reporters and photographers stationed in South Africa at the time were also compassionate human beings who exposed themselves to danger because they wanted to record history. This doesn’t particularly come through in the film. Instead, Silver plays to the Hollywood stereotype of journalists as heartless outsiders. After a fun day taking pictures of black people massacring each other, the lads go back to the white suburbs and party—the implication being that the bloodshed is a game to them.

Matloff worked with Marinovich and know Silva, as she was a member of the Johannesburg press corps in the early 1990s. Her experience is the point that she tells: The film depicts the photographers as reckless thrill-seekers, swaggering into newsrooms like rock stars and canoodling with babes, when not jumping into cars to chase “Bang Bang” (violence). In her long review Matloff wrote about Marinovich: --Maxim Pouska (talk) 23:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)Like most writers of memoirs that have become movies, Marinovich “disassociates” himself from the film version. “It has the same title but it is not the same story. It’s not my life. I don’t see the character as me.”

Miriam Brent in her review for The Guardian expressed the same critic as she wrote:

Frustratingly, though, while the film poses pertinent questions about when to put the camera down, it shies away from delving deeper into these moral dilemmas and the emotional strain faced by combat photographers. Instead we're introduced to a testosterone-fuelled world in which dodging bullets is just another way of getting kicks before the partying starts. … It's just a shame the accomplished cinematography isn't matched by a script that lets the true bravery and accomplishments of combat photojournalists shine through, as they deserve.

Some more reviewers critiqued the missing of the real Characters by the members of the Bang Bang Club in the film. Joao Silva was asked in a interview for the Paris Match about the film His answer described Michel Peyrard with the words:

Plus tard, le livre est devenu un film, dans lequel le photographe ne se reconnaît guère, et João a poursuivi sa route. Seul, désormais.

Later, the book became a film, in which the photographer hardly recognizes himself, and João continued his journey. Alone now. http://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Art/Joao-Silva-La-passion-intacte-526071 Michel Peyrard: João Silva. La passion intacte. Paris Match, Publié le 31.08.2013,fr

OK- Best.--Maxim Pouska (talk) 23:21, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

: "A real comment from João Silva on the film is important," I wrote - Joao Silva's comment is important, even if the quote was first published in French - the quote is in France (translatet into English) and in the magazine Paris Match first published. Best --Maxim Pouska (talk) 10:24, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

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